On May 24 2013 05:24 Aleteh wrote:
eMG announces today the signing of Greg “Idra” Fields to a management agreement for worldwide management and marketing representation across all major platforms, including sponsorship and licensing.

so many words with so little actually being said lol

zoLo

United States5896 Posts

May 23 2013 23:21 GMT

#102

Good luck to IdrA and eMG!

Doodsmack

United States7224 Posts

May 23 2013 23:21 GMT

#103

On May 24 2013 08:16 EpiK wrote:

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so many words with so little actually being said lol

That sentence you bolded definitely has meaning, and says something. Do you want them to be more specific? That would require even more words.

MaestroSC

United States2073 Posts

May 23 2013 23:23 GMT

#104

On May 24 2013 08:12 geokilla wrote:
I thought he hated SC2... Why is he still doing this?

Regardless, best of luck to them both.

Beats having a 9-5 real job or going to school.

He has stated hundreds of times throughout SC2 he is only in it for the money, and thought the game was trash since its debut in comparison to BW.

Now he is going to live the dream...

get paid to sit at home and play video games. And now he doesnt even have to be competitive like he used to. Results and showings dont exist so he doesnt have to stress about how good he actually is.

Nothing has changed for him, except now he gets paid to sit at home and play video games without having to stress at a competition about winning.

Edit: It is pretty funny that he is now one of those "personalities" he used to talk so much shit on.

Diaresta

United States597 Posts

May 23 2013 23:24 GMT

#105

Good luck to both Idra and EMG!

igay

Australia1178 Posts

May 23 2013 23:25 GMT

#106

Yes nice one idra

EpiK

Korea (South)5757 Posts

May 23 2013 23:28 GMT

#107

On May 24 2013 08:21 Doodsmack wrote:

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That sentence you bolded definitely has meaning, and says something. Do you want them to be more specific? That would require even more words.

What vital, new information do you gain from that sentence that you didn't have prior to reading it? It doesn't actually say anything. It's just a bunch of corporate buzzwords.

Holdenintherye

Canada1441 Posts

May 23 2013 23:29 GMT

#108

On May 24 2013 08:21 Doodsmack wrote:

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That sentence you bolded definitely has meaning, and says something. Do you want them to be more specific? That would require even more words.

Yeah I think it was talked about on SotG or ITG that basically it lets the personality do his own thing without worrying about scarmbling around for gigs and sponsorships. Much easier letting someone else do all the legwork setting up the deals and then just signing them.

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

May 23 2013 23:30 GMT

#109

beyond unsurprised :B

Serinox

Germany5224 Posts

May 23 2013 23:34 GMT

#110

I always see these announcements "XX has joined eMG", but I don't understand what they do in reality. Yeah, I get the concept, but have they done anything or do we just not hear anything about their work?

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

May 23 2013 23:45 GMT

#111

They would in theory find sponsors and endorsement opportunities for their individual clients and I imagine as a service even to teams since not every team has the talent or inclination to find sponsors as well as say, EG.

In reality they appear to do absolutely nothing

Saumure

France404 Posts

May 24 2013 00:10 GMT

#112

GG idrA, I hope he will be happy <3

BirdKiller

United States428 Posts

May 24 2013 00:19 GMT

#113

On May 24 2013 08:21 Doodsmack wrote:

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That sentence you bolded definitely has meaning, and says something. Do you want them to be more specific? That would require even more words.

Please...

"Management agreement for worldwide management"

Explain to me what the difference between "management agreement" and "agreement" is

Does the sponsor or the player have the capability to conduct "worldwide management" to begin with beyond the Internet?

"Marketing representation across all major platforms..." = "Idra promotes us over the Internet"

"including sponsorship and licensing" = "We pay him in order to make money off of him"

A lot of empty buzzwords just to say "agreement for eMG to sponsor Idra who'll then promote eMG". Once you've read enough press releases, promotions, and marketing, you'll start to notice the difference between solid and mature statements to empty amateurish statements like this one.

It's just a way for a small group that no one's every heard of to sound big and important to people who have no clue; also to attract more sponsors who have no clue either.

Pazuzu

United States632 Posts

May 24 2013 00:20 GMT

#114

Damn great for you Idra!!! Gonna be great, his casting during the ShoutCraft was incredible, and he knows so much about the game its great to have him as a personality now. GL!!

GhandiEAGLE

United States20754 Posts

May 24 2013 00:22 GMT

#115

Wastes NO time lol

GL to IdrA, I hope it was a sobering experience for him ^_^

darkscream

Canada2310 Posts

May 24 2013 00:23 GMT

#116

No surprise there, he said on real talk that he wouldn't be letting EG be his agency. There was really only one logical conclusion to that; he'd join the same agency Artosis, Tasteless and many other old boys work with.

Antisocialmunky

United States5912 Posts

May 24 2013 00:26 GMT

#117

Atleast he's not playing LoL.

AnachronisticAnarchy

United States2957 Posts

May 24 2013 00:43 GMT

#118

I hope that "eSports personality" really means "part-time caster." IdrA is one of the very best casters out there in terms of game knowledge. Every time he opens his mouth he showers us in knowledge bombs.

Kvz

United States463 Posts

May 24 2013 00:51 GMT

#119

Feel kind of iffy about this. I took a glance at their website. It's pretty apparent whoever designed it took like 5 minutes to do so because its wrought with typos and mistakes (ie: benifit, compliment instead of complement.)

Amateur stuff like this may not really be luring more people towards esports :|